Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-01-23

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how blind you all must be. Anyone with
has a glass side. / am sorry / have
nOttime to-day TO examine him more close
", but tomorrow at y | will meet you
all here" He then retired with the attend
ing physicians, leaving the patient over
iOyed that at last he had been able to con-
vince some one-and that one the greatest
ofall p~hysicians-as to his affection. The
next day at IL Sir Ashley was there with
the other physicians. In those days cloaks
were worn by nearly all gentltmen. As
Sir Ashley came into the room he threw his
cloak into a convenient chair and began
carefully to examine the patient. After 4
few moments he got him near the chair
where his cloak WAS and got out his in
strument. He told the patient not to be
as all his future happiness de-
pended on the next few minutes. He
was then asked to close his eyes. The
cloak was taken off the chair and the
quickly and forcibly pushed into
it. There was instantly n sound of break
ing glass. The patient turned around and
found the chair and floor strewn with
fragments Of glass. Sir Ashley Cooper,
with pretended delight, said: lyon are
now completely cured" The patient was
overjoyed at having so easily gotten rid of
his burden, and never afterwird imagined
he had a glass side. The reader can easily
imagine what Sir Ashley Cooper had done.
He found the only way TO cure the patient
was to agree with him, as nobody else had.
IL had n niana Of rloC1 hlnu.n oNI hilAan
under his coax. The patient had no sus-
picion of the trick, believeing it was his
old enemy that was smashed.
| have known men to imagine that they
had gold brains, silver livers and crystal
.stomachs, and the latter would swallow
hard food for fear of breaking the said
brittle organ. There is an authentic case
record of a man who thought himself a
and always went about ut home
and on the street with one arm held out at
right angles and the other akimbo, walked
sideways and made q kissing noise like a
boiling. Nothing could convince
him to the contrary. For many years it
was the only symptoms of insanity he
showed, but eventually he died in an asy-
lum for the insane.
Speaking of hallucinatiOns, | have in
Just now a lady, one of the best
actresses in this country, who has Just
such a horror of dirt that it has become a
with her. In washing her hands
she uses at least five bowls of water, uses
a towel but once, and that when it leaves
the laundrSss must be locked up lest any
l,,,.,, .hn,,1l 1Ny,,l - Han tNntl lr,Gh
is always under lock and key. Every
morning it takes her over an hour to
battle, using at least three tubs of water.
She dimes in no restaurant where she has
not the privilege of examining the kitchen
and questioning the cook. Her only hobby
is water. | always call her m aqua
maniac.
Recently | read of Il most interesting
Journey made by Lieutenant Buckingham
and Others of the United States Navy.
While in Siberia they were walking on
the banks of the USSilri river, when hc OBJ
a mcsSmatc, who was Il captain of
the general staff of the Russian army, APP
The captain of the boat suddenly,
and without any apparent reason, clapped
hands before his face. Instantly the
steward clapped his hands in the
manner, put on an angry look,
and passed III. The incident
was somewhat cmIiouS, us it in
vOlved Il degree of intimacy with the stew
ard hardly, in such Il county, to be eX-
After this they Observcrcd a num-
Der of queer performances OF the steward,
and finally comprehendcd the situation.
1t seemed that he was affected with q pc
mental OF nervous disease which
him to initiate everything suddenly
presented to his senses. Thus when the
slapped the paddle box suddenly in
the presence of the steward, the latter
instantly gave il Il similar thump, or
if any noise vas made suddenly he
seemed compelled against his will Ia imi-
tate it instantly and with remarkable ac-
curacy. 70 annoy him some of the pas
initiated pigs grunting or called out
names; Others clapped their hands
and shouted, jumped, OF threw their hats
on the deck suddenly, and the poor stew
ard, suddenly started, would initiate them
all precisely, and sometimes several con-
secutivcly. Frequently he would beg
people not TO startlc him, and again grow
.furiOuSly angry, but even i'll the
midst OF his passion would hclplcssly re-
peat some ridiculous shout or motion di-
rected at him by his pitiIcSs tormentOrS.
he would shut himselfup in his
pantry, which wa without windows, and
lock the door; but even there he could he
heard answering the shouts, grunts, or
sounds on the bulkhead outside. lie was
Il mar of middle age, fine physique, rather
intelligent in facial expression, and gave
not the slightest visible indication of his
disability.
| could COLON writing about such cases
until | exhausted my readers patience,
but | shall close by relating a few OF the
habits of the sect called the Jumpers, or
Jumping Frenchmcn, that have Il commu-
nifty near MoOschead Lake, Maine. | am
indebted To the late DR.. Beard for the par
ticuIars. lie found that whatever order
was taken them they 1T once obcyed.
Thus, one of the Jumpers who was sitting
ON a chair with a knife in his hand WAS
told to throw it. He threw it quickly so
that it stuck in a house opposite. At the
same time he repeated the order to throw
it with Il cry of alarm not unlike that of
hysteria OF epilepsy, He also threw away
his pipe, which he was filling with tobacco,
when he was clappcd on the shoulder, two
Jumpers sitting near each other were told
to strike, and they struck each other very
forcibly. When a Jumper Is told t0stnke,
he strikes; when told To throw, he throws
whatever he may happen to have in his
hand. DIR. Beard tried their powers Oirepe-
tition with the first part of the first line of
Virgil's ,'.Eneid" and the first part OF the
first line of HOmer's ''Iliad,' Ind out-of-
the way words in the English language,
with which the Jumpers could not have
been familiar. He repeated or echoed the
sound of the words as they came to him
in a quick, sharp voine. All of the Jump
ers agreed that it tired them to Jump, and
they dreaded it, but could not resist the
command. 1t was a most serious disease,
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